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PRONUNCIATION OF ROASTING JACK

roasting jack  [ˈrəʊstɪŋ dʒæk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROASTING JACK

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Roasting jack is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ROASTING JACK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

roasting jack

Roasting jack

A roasting jack is a machine which rotates meat roasting on a spit. It can also be called a spit jack, a spit engine or a turnspit, although this name can also refer to a human turning the spit, or a turnspit dog. Cooking meat on a spit dates back at least to the 1st century BC, but at first spits were turned by human power. In Britain, starting in the Tudor period, dog-powered turnspits were used; the dog ran in a treadmill linked to the spit by belts and pulleys. Other forms of roasting jacks included the steam jack, driven by steam, the smoke jack, driven by hot gas rising from the fire, and the bottle jack or clock jack, driven by weights or springs.

Definition of roasting jack in the English dictionary

The definition of roasting jack in the dictionary is a rotating spit for roasting meat on.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROASTING JACK


amberjack
ˈæmbəˌdʒæk
applejack
ˈæpəlˌdʒæk
blackjack
ˈblækˌdʒæk
bluejack
ˈbluːˌdʒæk
bootjack
ˈbuːtˌdʒæk
carjack
ˈkɑːˌdʒæk
crackajack
ˈkrækəˌdʒæk
crackerjack
ˈkrækəˌdʒæk
flapjack
ˈflæpˌdʒæk
highjack
ˈhaɪˌdʒæk
hijack
ˈhaɪˌdʒæk
jack
dʒæk
jak
dʒæk
lumberjack
ˈlʌmbəˌdʒæk
muntjac
ˈmʌntˌdʒæk
sanjak
ˈsændʒæk
skipjack
ˈskɪpˌdʒæk
skyjack
ˈskaɪˌdʒæk
slapjack
ˈslæpˌdʒæk
steeplejack
ˈstiːpəlˌdʒæk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROASTING JACK

roam
roamer
roaming
roan
Roanoke Island
roar
roar up
roarer
roaring
roaring days
Roaring Forties
Roaring Twenties
roaringly
roarming
roary
roast
roast beef
roaster
roasting
rob

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROASTING JACK

antihijack
black skipjack
bottle-jack
cheap-jack
crossjack
every man jack
half-jack
jumping jack
lancejack
man jack
manjack
phone-jack
screw jack
smokejack
supplejack
the jack
whipjack
whisky-jack
yellow jack

Synonyms and antonyms of roasting jack in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «roasting jack» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROASTING JACK

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The translations of roasting jack from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «roasting jack» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

焙烧插孔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jack torrefacción
570 millions of speakers

English

roasting jack
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बरस रही जैक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحميص جاك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обжарка разъем
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

jack torrefação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রোস্টিং জ্যাক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prise de torréfaction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Panggang panggang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Braten -Buchse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

焙煎ジャック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구이 잭
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Roasting jack
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rang jack
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வறுத்த பலா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भाजणे जॅक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

girarrosto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Jack pieczenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обжарка роз´єм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jack prăjire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

jack ψήσιμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

braai Jack
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rostningsjack
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

steking jack
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roasting jack

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROASTING JACK»

The term «roasting jack» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.069 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROASTING JACK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about roasting jack

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROASTING JACK»

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1
Lessons in Cookery: Hand-Book of the National Training ...
7. Put the tin oven ' in front of the fire. 8. See that the dripping-pan is in the oven with the dripping-ladle. 9. Take the hook of the oven, or of the roasting-jack, if you have one, and pass it through the IcnucMe-end of the leg. 10. "Wind up the jack ...
London National Training School for Cook, Rose Cole, Thomas Chambers, 2008
2
Catalogue of Mechanical Engineering Collection in the ...
For smaller fires it proved unsatisfactory, with the result that early in the 18th century the weight- driven jack became general, and was then known as the " common " roasting jack. The remains of the jack shown, together with the attached ...
Great Britain. Board of Education, 1908
3
Catalogue of the mechanical engineering collection in the ...
For smaller fires it proved unsatisfactory, with the result that early in the 18th century the weight- driven jack became general, and was then known as the " common " roasting jack. The remains of the jack shown, together with the attached ...
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1908
4
Beeton's Dictionary of universal information; comprising a ...
The terms boot-jack and roasting-jack seem to have been derived from the circumstance that boys were formerly employed to pull off boots and turn spits. Many of these boys bad the common name of Jack ; hence, when instrument« were ...
Samuel Orchart Beeton, George Rose Emerson, 1870
5
Indigestion
At the end of this period the roasting-jack is drawn back a foot or so away from the fire and the cooking continued, taking care that the meat is well basted from time to time and that a moderately good fire of the same intensity is continually kept ...
George Herschell, 1905
6
Dr. G. Herschell's Textbook of Indigestion
This will occupy about eight minutes for a medium-size leg of mutton, ten minutes for a sirloin of beef, and four minutes for a fowl. At the end of this period the roasting-jack is drawn back a foot or so away from the fire and the cooking continued, ...
Sir Adolphe Abrahams, George Arieh Herschell, 1920
7
Science and Medieval Thought
In every roasting jack there is a meatroasting quality which neither resides in the fly, nor in the weight, nor in any particular wheel of the jack. ..but is inherent in the jack.. ..As sensation, reasoning, volition &c. are the several modes ...
8
LONDON SOCIETY. JANUARY 1871.
I invented a noiseless roasting-jack, to give you an insignificant instance. And what was my dear mother's shrewd remark on it? why, that in all probability it would lessen the sum of human suffering more than any score of doctors put together !
‎1871
9
Birmingham and Midland Hardware District
Ohesterman, of Sheffield, about thirty years since, brought out his “lever” roasting -jack, in which the escapement is effected by pegs 654 vnamrms or ROASTING more. rivetted in two wheels, of.
S. Timmins, 2013
10
Bulletin of Photography
Then the old style roasting jack was brought into requisition. It was wound up with a key, similar to a clock, the combined loop was then hitched to the hook, the printing frames were placed thereon and these frames being covered with tissue  ...
John Bartlett, Frank V. Chambers, Francis Stapleton Chambers, 1914

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